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Taper vs Joggle - What's the difference?

taper | joggle |

In transitive terms the difference between taper and joggle

is that taper is to make thinner or narrower at one end while joggle is to shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

In intransitive terms the difference between taper and joggle

is that taper is to diminish gradually while joggle is to shake or totter; to slip out of place.

taper

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) taper, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • * ~1603 , William Shakespeare, ''Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:
    • strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper .
  • * 1913 ,
    • Love used to carry a bow, you know,
    But now he carries a taper ;
    It is either a length of wax aglow,
    Or a twist of lighted paper.
  • A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
    • the taper of a spire.
    The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
  • A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
    • Derived terms
    * taperwise

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make thinner or narrower at one end.
  • * 1851 ,
    • Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
  • To diminish gradually.
    • Derived terms
    * taper off
    Synonyms
    * narrow

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
  • Someone who works with tape or tapes.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    joggle

    English

    Verb

    (joggl)
  • To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
  • To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  • To jog or run while juggling.
  • (architecture) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
  • * Gwilt
    • The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
  • (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.